July 21, 2004

MELTDOWN AND AFTER

Well, the big post I had planned today will have to wait, because I lost it - and the whole contents of my hard disc - last night. The machine had been wheezing and spluttering for a while now as I subjected it to my punishing regime of no less than five windows open at any one time and finally it gave up the ghost. So I had to re-initialize the hard disc.

This has its benefits actually. All the cobwed-dusted applications on the hard drive that I never used but which clogged up space have been summarily removed without my having the option of shillyshallying about their deletion ('I might use it one day...') The result is that the machine is leaner, meaner and much more efficient.

Inccidentally, you should have seen the quivering cold turkey wreck I'd become when I was deprived of internet access. Yeh, I'll shoot a child in the head, I'll do anything, JUST GET ME BACK ONLINE: I said to God. Or the Devil.

So, major posts by the end of the week...

btw, could any friends out there please email me coz I obv lost my Outlook Express address book along with everything else...

And what panic and pain is induced by having one's Internet umbilical cut -- for me, it's like being taken off the nipple ;-).

It presages a time when all your interactions and transactions are automatically captured for you -- the question is whether that information will be under your control or someone else's. Very few people have a business plan for the latter.

And what panic and pain is induced by having one's Internet umbilical cut -- for me, it's like being taken off the nipple ;-).

Quite. I couldn't sleep. Well, a computer means so much now, doesn't it: contact with friends as well as data. It's like being deprived of some of your senses and a large portion of yr social life all in one go.